[1] According to Dina Katz all of them were female,[3] though in a more recent publication Josephine Fechner and Michel Tanret point out a reference to a male Ninkurra in the god list An = Anum.
[5] Ninkurra (alternatively: Ninkur) appears Weidner god list, An = Anum and ritual texts as a craftsman deity, associated with other similar figures, such as Kulla, Ninmug or Ninagala.
[7] Ninkurra was regarded as a sculptor,[8] but the material she was believed to work with varies between sources: a Mîs-pî incantation connects her with precious and semi-precious stones, while an inscription of Sennacherib instead mentions limestone.
[19] She tentatively proposes that she might have been a goddess of similar character originally worshiped further to the north than Ereshkigal, and closely linked to Nergal, possibly as his spouse, though ultimately lack of evidence makes determining the nature of the relations between these three deities impossible.
[22] However, it is possible that in the Old Babylonian Mari god list, where this name occurs in the end of the section focused on theonyms starting with the sign NIN, the male craftmanship deity is meant.
[29] Another Emariote ritual dedicated to dNIN.KUR involved specialists named nagīrtu (the feminine form of Akkadian nagīru, "herald"), though neither the details of its performance nor the role of these women in it is known.
[30] Antoine Cavigneaux and Manfred Krebernik suggest that in both Mariote and Emariote texts the theonym dNIN.KUR(.RA) should be read as Bēlet-mātim, and that it refers to Shalash, a goddess presumed to be Dagan's usual spouse.
[1] Lluís Feliu simply renders it as Ninkur or Ninkurra,[26] but he also notes that a goddess named Ba’alta-mātim appears in texts from Mari in association with Emar, and might be one and the same as dNIN.KUR.
[33] Grégoire Nicolet proposes that the entry Ninkur in a variant of the Weidner god list known exclusively from Ugarit might represent the deity from Emar, as opposed to any lower Mesopotamian namesake.